Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 273 pages, oblong hardcover illustrated in color and b&w. Frank Benson, a pivotal artist of the American Impressionist movement had three great loves in his long and productive life: his family, his art, and the sporting life. As a boy, Benson dreamed of being an ornithological illustrator. In mid-life, after an extremely successful career as a portraitist, he returned to the wildfowl and sporting subjects that were his lifelong passion. Over the next forty years, in etching, lithography, watercolor, and oil and wash, he portrayed birds beloved since childhood, scenes of his hunting and fishing expeditions, and still lives of incomparable delicacy. Whether painting a hunter setting out decoys, a wash of geese by moonlight, a watercolor of a companion poised to gaff a salmon, or an etching of a group of ducks silently gliding in for a landing, Benson conveyed the joy and beauty of a sportsman's life.
Hardcover. Milan, Mondadori, 1st, 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 6 unnumbered pages including the inside of both covers. Publisher's thick pictorial boards backed in white cloth-patterned paper & saddle stapled. Lightly soiled, edges slightly rubbed, otherwise very good. A nice example with all flaps and concealed color illustrations in perfect working order. Three stories of birds each with it's own open-the-flap text and graphic art. Laid in is a typed English translation of the text. Bruno Munari was "one of the most celebrated names in twentieth century Italy in graphic designing who fundamentally altered the landscape of many fields of visual arts, futurism and modernism He is credited for his contribution to industrial design, sculpture, painting, literature, film and concrete art." A collector's copy of this scarce title.
Hardcover. Barre, Mass., Imprint Society, 1st thus, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Full color plates throughout, number 380 of a limited 500 copies, slipcase included, green cloth board with ivory spine and gilt title. Very clean and bright copy. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. Boston, L.C. Page, 1st, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, First impression. Hardcover, 8vo. in ruled green pictorial cloth with gilt letters. 210 pages. illustrated by Louis Rhead with color plates. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Portland OR, Timber Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 277 pages, illustrated in color. Ornamental grass expert John Greenlee creates a new model for homeowners and gardeners. For Greenlee, a meadow isn't a random assortment of messy, anonymous grasses. Rather, it is a shimmering mini-ecosystem, in which regionally appropriate grasses combine with colorful perennials to form a rich tapestry that is friendly to all life -- with minimal input of water, time, and other scarce resources. Kids and pets can play in complete safety, and birds and butterflies flock there. A prairie style planting is a place you want to be. With decades of experience as a nurseryman and designer, John Greenlee is the perfect guide. He details all the practicalities of site preparation, plant selection, and maintenance; particularly valuable are his explanations of how ornamental grasses perform in different climates and areas. Gorgeous photography by Saxon Holt visually illustrates the message with stunning examples of meadow gardens from across the country. Clean copy.
Softcover. London, Quartet Books, 1st pbk, 1982, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 310 pages. color frontispiece plate + 120 color plates by Martin Woodcock, color photographs, b/w illustrations; map end papers. Superbly produced and lavishly illustrated this was the first major work on Arabian birds for over 25 years, and the first comprehensive book on the birds of any Arabian country. DUE TO WEIGHT, This is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping. International customers please ask for a shipping quote before purchasing.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st Illust., 1912, Hardcover, originally written in 1886, this is a 1912 printing, a more scarce edition featuring the pen-and-ink sketches & color (black/gray/white/red) illustrations by artist Katharine R. Wireman. 91 pages. Small hardcover 8vo (6.75" x 8.5"), green cloth over boards with red & lighter green illustrations of birds, candles, & holly & red script lettering to front & spine. Front fly leaf gone, spine with mild fading.
Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell , 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 224 pages, b&w illustrations by Harold Berson. A charming and absorbing story for young readers set in rural Kansas in 1913 about a family of children, their grandmother, and a nest of orphaned newly-hatched bluejays. Inscription on front fly leaf otherwise bight and clean.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 2nd pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 127 pages; black and white illustrations. Discusses American birds of prey, such as eagle, hawk, osprey, and falcon, giving technical information as well as anecdotes of the author's experience with them. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st trade, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in a lightly worn slipcase. First trade edition limited to 3000 copies. 278 pages with 58 color plates plus many drawings by Karl Karalus, text by Allan Eckert. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Faber and Faber, 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 235 pages, top edge gilt. A novel from English author Henry Williamson in which he uses the concept of the stars - a regular feature in his work - to explore the nature of good and evil, with the author describing it as a celestial fantasy. With full plate and vignette wood engravings from Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe, an internationally renowned naturalistic painter of British birds and other wildlife. Clean copy.
Hardcover. West Chester PA, Schiffer Publishing, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 128 pages illustrated in color and b&w. The story of the life and works of an American wildfowl artist. Lem's life is a tale of courage - of a man who overcame a withered arm, lack of formal education, cultural isolation, and severe illness to become one of the founders of American Wildfowl Art. This is a close look at how he and his brother, Steve, grew up together in the marshes along the Chesapeake Bay, how they subsisted as barbers and foragers, how they retained their independent spirits to create birds that pleased them - wildfowl art - while carvers around them were creating decoys just good enough for hunting ducks. Lem's work is described in pictures, accompanied by colorful comments and interesting insights by a collector who became one of the artist's closest friends. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY/London, Frederick Warne, 2nd Ed., 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Small hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The original of this story was written by Beatrice Potter in 1907 but never illustrated by her. This Second Edition features the first appearance of the lovely color plates by Marie Angel. Clean copy.
London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 292 pages. Maps on the endpapers. Black and white illustrations by Timothy Birdsall. A illustrated guide to the major theatres in London along with a brief history of each. No dust jacket. A bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Gulliver Books/Harcourt, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 82 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with color illustrations by Tom Pohrt.
NY, Pantheon Books, 1st US, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Green cloth binding with brown cloth spine. Illustrated with b&w woodcut drawings by Margaret Wetherbee. 124 pages. Story of a year in the life of a village schoolboy and his dominant elder brother - both are poachers and bird trappers, but both have a certain devotion to their victims. Through the eyes of these boys we see the change of seasons, the habits of birds and animals. Clean copy. No dust jacket.
Softcover. Bethel CT, Apple Comics, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled comic book with color wraps, 28 pages illustrated in b&w by Lomax. Creator Don Lomax, a Vietnam War veteran, has entrenched his Vietnam Journal as one of the most realistic graphic representations of the Vietnam War. Recommended by The Military Book Club. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Dust jacket shows very minor wear otherwise clean and nice. Color illustrations by Whitney Darrow, Jr. Hardbound.
Hardcover. Chicago, Follett Publishing, BC Ed., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 32 pages with lovely bird illustrations in color by Leonard Weisgard.
Hardcover. NY, Bluesky/Scholastic, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 65 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustby Barry Moser. Clean tght copy.
Hardcover. NY, Bluesky/Scholastic, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 65 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Barry Moser. Clean tght copy.
Hardcover. Edinburgh, T. Nelson and Sons, Paternoster Row, 1st, 1885, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 72 pages. Green cloth with flowers and birds. Cover slightly faded, soiled. Front hinge torn cracked. Back end pages stained. previous owner's signature. Color frontispiece of beavers building a dam, b&w engravings in text.
Hardcover. NY, E. P. Dutton & Co., 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 96 pages illustrated in b&w by John Kaufmann. The story is beautifully written by an author who knows and understands the habits and life of Canada geese. The illustrations are absolutely lovely with careful detail for each goose pictured. Light spottig to edge of text block, otherwise clean.
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